Feminism and Classics VI: Crossing Borders, Crossing Lines
Sponsored by Department of Classics, Brock University
AIA Society Event: Niagara Peninsula, ON
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - Sunday, May 27, 2012
Location:
Brock University
500 Glenridge Avenue
St. Catharines L2S 3A1
Canada
Ancient Mediterranean society was crisscrossed by multiple boundaries and borders. Firm boundaries between male and female, slave and free, gods and mortals (to name just a few) defined social identities and relationships, even as these lines were regularly crossed in religious ritual, social practices and artistic imagination. In current scholarship, Feminism is now Feminisms, encouraging multiple, and even transgressive, approaches to the study of women, gender, and sexuality in the ancient world. But has Feminism itself become a boundary, dividing fields of study or generations of scholars? Or is it a threshold, encouraging crossings between literary, historical and archaeological evidence? What new approaches are scholars using to push the boundaries of the evidence and the limits of our knowledge of the ancient world? Read more »
Website: http://www.brocku.ca/conferences/feminism-classics-vi
Contact:
FCVI
FCVI@brocku.ca
